Researching technology & organization, legitimacy contests & stigma ✪ Book 'The Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism' ✪ Prof @UCL
"Most state a preference for P yet when facing tangible choices (for ex, opt out of ad targeting), many give up on P"
...but don't conclude that stating a pro-P preference is just virtue-signaling and that people don't *actually* care!
WHY NOT?
Personal data is not *just* personal. If folks in your network opt to share their personal data, advertisers can derive predictions about you.
These externalities reduce the value of P for those who care about P
Jul 21, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
We used #AI to "read" & organize a vast body of texts:
Specifically, we reviewed 50 years of research on *organizational #adaptation*
It's a large literature that uses various labels to refer to the same thing (adaptation, fit, congruence, strategic change)
How did that go?
With @andrewsarta & @rudyOrg, we had first reviewed the literature "manually" (a.k.a. using our own brains) but a reviewer asked us:
"how can I be sure you're not biased and projecting your own framework onto the adaptation literature?"
A note on the deliberate spread of baseless, unverified information in the age of #covid19 and the contribution of high-reputation journalists and media to this trend.
Example:
"China is lying, #COVID19 killed 45,000 people in Wuhan, not 2,535"
***THREAD***
People on social media started counting ash urns processed by Wuhan funeral homes during lockdown, estimated it was ~45,000
